Madness of the Heart

Zhu Linglong's body was discovered by an old man who was doing morning exercises on the mountain.

It is rainy in winter, and a light rain at night dilutes the blood gushing from her neck, rushing to the mossy soil beside the path.Her clothes were already soaked, her ponytail was loose, her long hair spread over her face, her eyes and mouth were not closed, and death had frozen her despair and pain at the last moment.

"The rigor has spread to the whole body, and the corpse spots appear on the back and the back of the thighs, and are fused in a large area. The finger pressure does not fade, the cornea is highly cloudy, and the conjunctiva of the eyes has begun to dissolve." According to the autopsy, "the time of death was about 12 hours. She was killed around 9:[-] p.m. last night. The fatal injury was located in the neck, and a sharp object cut off her carotid artery, causing massive blood loss in a short period of time."

"What kind of trace is this?" Lan Qiao asked, pointing to the blood hole on the forehead of the corpse.

The forensic doctor shook his head, "It's not clear what tool caused them, but I'm sure it's a post-mortem injury."

Lan Qiao's face was solemn, remembering the meeting she had at the Criminal Investigation Bureau not long ago.In a case currently being investigated by the serious crime team, the victim had small holes of unknown significance.

Is this case related to the case in the hands of the serious crime team?

After receiving the report of the case from the Dongcheng branch, Mingshu immediately set off to Luhuang Mountain in the southeast corner of Dongye City, and saw Xiao Yu'an was there when he got in the car.

"Xiao Bureau?"

"Come up." Xiao Yu'an motioned to the vacant seat beside him, "I heard that the deceased had a small hole in his head, so I'll go and see it too."

The police car sped away and stopped half an hour later beside the narrow road leading to Luhuang Mountain from "Jushan Qunshu".

"Go up the mountain from here?" Fang Yuanhang asked.

"Come closer from here." Lan Qiao said: "The identity of the deceased has been confirmed. It is Zhu Linglong, the owner of 'Jushan Qunshu', 24 years old, a native of Dongye City. Judging from her attire when she was killed, She was running at night in Luhuang Mountain. The surveillance at the gate captured her."

When passing through the gate, Mingshu asked, "Is this where she entered the mountain?"

Lan Qiao nodded, "It can be seen from previous monitoring that Zhu Linglong would enter the mountain around 8:10 every night and return around [-] o'clock. This gate is the only entrance and exit connecting Luhuang Mountain and the community."

"The community has the signboard of Luhuang Mountain, but in fact they are not responsible for the residents who enter Luhuang Mountain." Ming Shu observes the surrounding environment, brows frowned, "I have the impression that Luhuang Mountain is a forest park, what do you think of it?" It’s so desolate? There’s no basic lighting facilities.”

"The forest park is mainly located in the northern section." Lan Qiao, as a criminal policeman of the Dongcheng Sub-bureau, is naturally more familiar with Dongcheng District than Mingshu. "This is the back mountain of Luhuang Mountain. Basically, no tourists will come here."

Mingshu said: "That is to say, although it is called the back garden of 'Jushan Villas', it is also called Lvhuangshan Forest Park, but it is actually an embarrassing area of ​​'no matter what'."

Lan Qiao sighed, "Yes, very few people come here, but anyone can come here. Zhu Linglong is a girl who has been running in this kind of place for a long time, and there are always potential safety hazards."

With that said, everyone has rushed to the scene of the crime.

It was a path that should be described as quiet. The leaves were towering, some were already yellow, some were still green. They entangled above Zhu Linglong to form a dome. If one ignored the tragedy below, it could even be regarded as a rare sight in the city. beautiful view.

Xing Mu went up first, checked and said: "Same as Huang Yan and Li Zhaofeng, it is also an ice hammer."

Mingshu asked: "Did any other clues be found at the scene?"

The trace inspector of the sub-bureau shook his head, "The fight between the murderer and the victim was very short. The victim was subdued in an instant, and no skin tissue of the murderer was found in his nails or mouth."

The coroner added: "There was no sign of assault either. The murderer had an overwhelming advantage over the victim."

At this time, Lan Qiao suddenly received a call from a technical investigation team member. The other party was emotional, saying that the public surveillance near the south exit 7 of Luhuang Mountain had captured a suspicious person.

Surveillance in the fringe areas of the city has not yet been updated, and the quality of the images taken at night is worrying.

But even so, it can be seen that at 8:12 last night, an extremely weird person with a backpack entered the Green Phoenix Mountain from the South No. 7 entrance.

He is strange because his neck is not the head of a normal person, but a huge wolf's head!

At 9:49, this person reappeared in the surveillance near South Exit 7, and then left along the street westward.

The southern section of Luhuang Mountain is already remote, and even in the daytime, few people pass by the South 7 entrance.There were no witnesses around when the person was captured on camera twice.

"Zhou Yuan." Ming Shu said: "To clarify the picture, I want a close-up of the details of this wolf head."

Zhou Yuan nodded, "Understood!"

The case was officially transferred to the Major Crime Unit.

Xing Mu conducted an autopsy on the body, and it was clear that Zhu Linglong had not taken any medicine before she was killed and was exercising on an empty stomach.The murderer did not leave any clear clues on her.Judging from the fatal injuries and the appearance of the small hole after death, the murderer is "evolving" step by step.

The wound on Huang Yan's neck was the most hideous, like a big bloody mouth, with blood vessels and trachea protruding outwards. The murderer used great strength in the attack, and may have repeatedly cut and stabbed Huang Yan because he was worried that he would not be able to kill Huang Yan. .The small holes in Huang Yan's chest are dense, overlapping, and of different shades, reflecting the murderer's fluctuating and restless mental state at that time.

Both Li Zhaofeng and Zhu Linglong's wounds were relatively "clean". Li Zhaofeng's sole was stabbed twice with an ice hammer, while Zhu Linglong's forehead was only stabbed once.This shows that the murderer has been able to control his emotions after gaining experience.

Especially when killing Zhu Linglong, he was even more than capable.

"The murderer must have known that he would be caught by the camera, but he didn't care, he had a hood." Fang Yuanhang said: "I suspect that the murderer also wore that wolf head when he killed Li Zhaofeng."

"The murderer's height is estimated to be between 1 and 79 meters through surveillance, and his body shape is correct. But the reason why he wears a wolf head is probably not just to cover up his identity." Ming Shu said slowly: "The wolf head is against the murderer and For the victim, it is a prop with a certain meaning, and the murderer hopes to use the wolf head to restore a scene, and then intimidate the victim before committing the crime."

Fang Yuanhang said: "There are many other ways to conceal your identity, and there are countless kinds of headgear, but the murderer chose the wolf head. If our earlier inference is close to the truth, then the intersection of the victims is the werewolf killing?"

Mingshu said: "A real werewolf kills."

Zhou Yuan completed the processing of the picture. Due to the limitation of the shooting equipment, no matter how fine it is, it can be judged that the wolf head worn by the murderer belongs to the same series as the wolf head worn by Li Zhaofeng's family.

They are all werewolf killing peripherals produced and sold by the "Storm" Chamber of Secrets club several years ago.

Zhu Linglong's home in "Jushan Group Villas" is located at 12-3, District A. It has two bedrooms and one living room. It is about seventy square meters. It is decorated very warmly. A Barbie doll, at first glance, is the residence of young girls.

"It seems that it has been cleaned recently, and there is no sign of outsiders entering." Xiao Man said: "The electric water heater in the bathroom is on the boil, and the air conditioner and electric blanket in the bedroom are both on. It's totally unprepared."

"This is quite different from Huang Yan's murder." Mingshu paced the living room, his eyes resting on a basket of facial masks beside the coffee table, "Huang Yan took the initiative to turn off the surveillance to 'welcome' the murderer, but Zhu Linglong didn't know that she was being targeted by the murderer, and Li Zhaofeng probably didn't know that she was the murderer's target either."

"What does this difference mean?" Xiao Man frowned, "Imitation?"

"I don't rule out the possibility of imitating the crime, but if it is really imitating the crime, you can only find it from the 'insider'." Mingshu said: "The detail of Huang Yan's small hole in her chest has never been announced to the public."

The "insider" crime is a very sensitive topic, Xiao Man shook his head, "I don't think so."

Ming Shu said: "Looking at this series of cases, I don't think so. It is obvious that the murderer and the three victims have overlaps. Li Zhaofeng and the murderer have the werewolf headgear of the 'Storm' secret room club. Before Huang Yan met Cai Xinyue, I have been to 'Storm', where the murderer killed Zhu Linglong wearing the werewolf headgear of 'Storm'. I am now more convinced that the small hole made by the ice hammer means wolf teeth - the murderer couldn't find anything better than the ice hammer More like a mace, and it's not easy to get a real mace."

Xiao Man said: "In this way, maybe Zhu Linglong also has a werewolf headgear!"

However, until the end of the indoor search, the serious crimes team did not find the werewolf headgear. There were two boxes of werewolf killing cards, but they were placed at the bottom of the bookcase, and it seemed that they had not been used for at least two years.

Similar to Li Zhaofeng, Zhu Linglong also has many other cards.

There are two manuals in a conspicuous place on the computer table, with tickets inside.Both the tickets and manuals belong to the secret room of the "Ninth Battlefield" that "Tianyun Chaodu" opened not long ago.

Mingshu remembered that this secret room was the place where Huang Yan had made an appointment to go with Cai Xinyue before she was killed.

Their deaths have something to do with this secret room that suddenly appeared in Dongye City?

"The last time you went to 'Fengbo', they said that this kind of werewolf headgear was no longer sold two years ago, and the real werewolf killing organized by customers was relatively popular three years ago." Xiao Yuan said: "Then The intersection of their group was probably three years ago."

A group of people who were strangers to each other played a werewolf killing game in the "Storm" secret room club three years ago, and then each returned to their own lives. Now the werewolf killing has long passed, but the participants were killed one after another. From a perspective, this is a real real werewolf killing.

"Now the investigation has encountered some obstacles." Ming Shu warmed his hands with a porcelain cup in his hand, "'Storm' never registers guests, and the monitoring is only kept for the last six months. Let alone three years ago, who was there a year ago?" It is not easy to find out if the storm has been consumed. The number of participants in Werewolf Killing varies, 6, 8, 10, 12, or even more people can play. The murderer knows who the players were at that time, but we do not I know. The killer can do it any time he wants to. I'm afraid the next murder will happen soon."

"It's not that they have no ideas at all." Xiao Yu'an said: "They gathered in 'Fengbo', but if they play real werewolf kills, 'Storm' doesn't provide a location, they can only find a location by themselves. The city is not a good choice, the most ideal place is Remote forests or villages. Li Zhaofeng likes to run to the southwest, such as Wulizhou, he may even propose to go to Liwuzhou, but the feasibility is almost zero.”

"Because it's too far away!" Mingshu put down his glass, "The more people there are, the harder it is to coordinate. Li Zhaofeng is a white-collar worker, and Zhu Linglong was a student at the time, and they don't have a lot of time. They can only choose a nearby village."

"Usually, women are more keen on taking pictures than men, especially when they go to a new place." Xiao Yu'an said: "Let Zhou Man and the others find all the photos of Huang Yan and Zhu Linglong, especially the photos from three years ago, press the button Make a comparison with the timeline of the timeline, maybe you can find the same place.”

Wang Jun was questioned again, but she had almost no information to provide to the police.

At least four years ago, her marriage with Li Zhaofeng fell into a quagmire, and Li Zhaofeng never revealed to her what was in his heart.

In the company, although Li Zhaofeng is very popular and talks to almost all his colleagues, no one knows what his entertainment is after get off work.

This is a man who took the initiative to build walls around himself, he has a world that belongs only to him.

I am afraid that he can feel the joy of being alive only when he is traveling and playing games with headphones.

While the investigation continued to deepen, the Forensic Medicine Center determined that the skull belonged to a sky burial in Wulizhou and was not involved in the murder case.

After hearing the bad news, Zhu Linglong's mother fainted and passed out in the hospital. Her father Zhu Zhenyou endured the grief and came to the Criminal Investigation Bureau to assist in the investigation.

Zhu's family is in the ornamental plant business, and their living standard is above average in Dongye City. Zhu Zhenyou's voice is hoarse, and he keeps wiping away his tears with the towel he carries with him.

"Linglong is my only daughter, and she has been held in the palm of my hand by her mother since she was a child. We thought about buying a house for her before she graduated from university. At that time, I wanted to buy a house in the northwest of Dongcheng District, which was close to the city center and convenient for everything, but Linglong didn't want to, so she insisted on buying here, saying that it is backed by Luhuang Mountain, and the air is good." Zhu Zhenyou lamented: "It's our parents' fault for not taking good care of her!"

Mingshu put the wolf head found in Li Zhaofeng's house in front of Zhu Zhenyou, "Do you have any impression of this kind of headgear?"

Zhu Zhenyou was stunned for a moment, and tears fell from his eyes again, "Where did you find this? Is this related to Linglong's murder?"

Mingshu said: "Do you have any impression? Zhu Linglong also has a similar werewolf headgear?"

The sad old father took the wolf's head with trembling hands, and looked at it for a long time, "We also have one in our family, which was brought back by Linglong when she was in college. Later, when she moved to a new house, she said she didn't want it, so her mother put it away."

Fang Yuanhang rushed to Zhu Linglong's parents' home and found a werewolf headgear in the locker.

Compared with the other two wolf heads, Zhu Linglong's is obviously much more delicate, even the color is not gray and black, but snow white.

Xu Cheng, the manager of "Fengbo", said: "This is a female wolf headgear, which is made according to the circumference of a woman's head, but many customers think it is too cute and does not have the deterrent feeling of a werewolf, so it has not been selling well."

"Three werewolf headgears have been found now." Fang Yuanhang said: "Huang Yan's family has no headgears. Either she didn't buy them, or she thought they were useless and disposed of them. I still can't think of the murderer's motive. They A group of people used to play a game, but they haven’t contacted each other for several years, why did they suddenly kill people?”

"What happened in the game back then." Mingshu said, "I suspect that this group of people never contacted after they parted because of this incident."

"Fuck!" Fang Yuanhang shuddered, "Don't tell me someone died while playing the game? The murderer took revenge for this dead person?"

"Ming team! I found it!" Zhou Yuan shouted excitedly on the phone: "Can you and Xiao Ju come over now?"

There are multiple photos stitched together on the screen. They are from Huang Yan's computer and Zhu Linglong's social platform gallery respectively. The shooting time was concentrated in early October three years ago. The earliest one was on October 10, and the latest one was October 10th.

It can be seen from the photos that it is the countryside, with low earth houses and fields, but the fields are overgrown with weeds and are in a barren state.There are no villagers or other people in the photo, it is a pure landscape photo.

Mingshu learned from Xu Cheng that there was an unwritten rule among those who used to play Werewolf, especially real Werewolf lovers, they would not take pictures or ask for each other's information, which is different from the later rush to make friends. The guests who come are essentially different.

So it can be understood that there is no one in the photo.

"Are you sure where this is?" Xiao Yuan asked.

Zhou Yuan said: "It's in Maoyang Village, the southernmost part of Han Province!"

At the same time, the investigation of Zhu Linglong's interpersonal relationship is also in progress.

Liu Ying cried bitterly, "I even asked her to apply for a fitness card with me. If I keep her, she won't be killed!"

Mingshu said: "You are the closest colleague to Zhu Linglong, have you ever heard her talk about the secret room and werewolf killing?"

"Yes." Liu Ying wiped her tears, "Linglong just told me not long ago that she went to the newly opened secret room in 'Tianyun Chaodu', and she felt horrible after playing...ah!"

Following Liu Ying's scream, Ming Shu frowned, "What's wrong?"

"Werewolf Killing Linglong also told me." Liu Ying covered her mouth, "She said, she said that she played real Werewolf Killing a few years ago, and she also played with Hu, Hu Ying!"

"What?" Mingshu asked: "Hu Ying? The Hu Ying who played "Red Dust and Jianghu"?"

Liu Ying nodded and shook her head, as if she didn't understand what she was talking about, "Linglong said it was the shadow of the lake, but I didn't believe it, so I asked her to show the photo. She said no, and said I don't believe it."

This is undoubtedly an extremely important clue, and Zhu Linglong's other friends also confirmed that after Hu Ying became popular, Zhu Linglong did say that she had played real-life werewolf with Hu Ying.

"But we all thought she was lying, not the truth."

"Linglong is actually a bit vain—although it's not good for me to say that a person who has passed away like this, but she also said that she knew this star and that star when she was studying. Later, she was exposed, and she said that she just dreamed of them."

"Zhu Linglong may not have lied this time." Ming Shu said, "Before Huying became popular, she did go to the 'Storm' secret room club. When we went to 'Storm' last time, I saw Huying playing on the screen all the time." video, 'Fengbo' is using Huying for publicity!"

Xiao Yu'an turned around from the window, "If Hu Ying was a participant in the real-life werewolf killing, then he must also be the murderer's target. The murderer didn't do anything to him for the time being because he is a star and it was difficult to do it to him. The biggest. However, another possibility is not ruled out..."

"You mean, Hu Ying is the murderer." Ming Shu shook his head as soon as he said it, "Why would a star who is at the peak of popularity suddenly kill someone? The possibility is too low."

"No matter what the possibility is, contact the economic company first." Xiao Yu'an said: "Now maybe he is the only one who can explain clearly what happened back then."

In the headquarters building of Fangchi Entertainment, a nanny car parked quietly in the night.

Two years back, Fang Chi Entertainment was still a little-known entertainment company, and there was not a single artist under its banner.This year, however, they suddenly lost their "shit luck"-Huying became popular because of "Red Dust and Jianghu" filmed last year, and Xinghuan Entertainment in the same city was struggling because of the scandal of the Chu family.

Now Fangchi's reputation in the industry has grown rapidly along with Huying, and it has the potential to replace Xinghuan Entertainment.

Almost all young artists who become popular overnight will choose to take advantage of the trend and take on endorsements, variety shows, and new films, for fear that they will not be able to burn themselves into the most dazzling light.

Before "The Red Dust and the Rivers and Lakes" started broadcasting, Fang Chi had formulated a series of business plans for Hu Ying, and Hu Ying was quite cooperative at the beginning—since he entered this circle, he has always been the hardworking one.But when the popularity of "Red Dust and Rivers and Lakes" spread across the country, Huying instead asked the company to "cool down" itself. The reason was that they wanted to devote themselves to filming in the future, and did not want to consume too much in the vain traffic and popularity.

But how is Fang Chi willing to let go of such a cash cow?

For a period of time, Hu Ying was continuously stuffed into variety shows and accepted various interviews.Last month, Hu Ying directly told her agent Man Lin that she needs to rest and has family members to take care of.

Fang Chi began to hype Hu Ying's filial piety.

Tonight, Huying finished recording a program and returned to Fangchi with Man Lin.

It is rare for the popular fried chicken to come to the company, and many employees and 180-line artists poked their heads out to watch the excitement.

Man Lin closed the door, and the smile that was still on his face just now disappeared, "How long do you want to rest? You don't even want to read the book I found for you! Hu Ying, do you think you can rely on "The Red Dust and the Jianghu?" "Will it be popular until next year? Tell me how many years you've been struggling? Now you're finally making it through. You don't cooperate with my marketing methods, and you're still picky! Can you correct your attitude? You're a traffic , not a powerful artist! You don’t have the capital to cultivate your life right now! Next year, when the new blockbuster drama is broadcast, all your little fans will go to recognize someone else as their brother!”

Hu Ying sat on the sofa with an indifferent expression, indifferent to the manager's earnest words.

He didn't even glance at the agent.

This appearance is very different from the lake shadow in the public perception.

"You must accept this notebook for me." Man Lin said angrily.

Hu Ying lowered her eyes, and her eyes fell on a script of a modern idol drama.

Half a minute later, he got up and said, "Sorry, I don't have time right now."